It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them.

There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of the Virgin. You may think that both these practices are gross superstition, but you can hardly think that one is real and potent and deny reality and potency to the other.

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.